Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

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Jealous love lights its torch in the fire of the furies.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

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The first and simplest emotion we discover in the human mind is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

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A very large part of the evils that afflict the world derive from words.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

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Take care of your ambition. It can soar but also crawl.

George Burns

George Burns

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Who makes us laugh is a comedian. Who makes us think and then laugh is a humorist.

Robert Burns

Robert Burns

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The history is a matter of survival. If we didn't have a past, we would be devoid of the imprint that defines our being.

Robert Burton

Robert Burton

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One never fell in love, and that was their hell. Another did, and that was their condemnation.

Robert Burton

Robert Burton

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Due to our ignorance, we do not know the necessary things; due to error, we know them incorrectly.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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It takes but the blink of an eye to turn a peaceful man into a warrior.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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Many people cannot even emancipate themselves, that is, they cannot even realize the slavery in which the ideas amidst which they have been educated keep them.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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The life is like music, it must be composed with the ear, the feeling, and the instinct, not by rules.